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Among films in limited release, Roman Polanski's favorably reviewed thriller The Ghost Writer took in $870,000 on just 43 screens. But the big race, not so much at the box office as in this week's Oscar pools, was between two nominees for the foreign-language Academy Award, both of them released by Sony Pictures Classics. A Prophet, Jacques Audiard's French prison drama, opened to a decent $170,000 in nine theaters in New York and Los Angeles, while Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon made $168,000 in its ninth week of limited release. That movie...
...foreign correspondent and internationally respected journalist. Amanpour is a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, in addition to being named an honarary citizen of the city of Sarajevo due to her in-depth coverage of the war in Bosnia during the 1990s. She has provided award-winning correspondence from, among other places, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Rwanda and Somalia. “There are many, many rounds of deliberation, but from the beginning she was one of our foremost choices,” says Second Class Marshal Larry D. Arbuthnott...
...dying mathematician across two parallel universes, as seen from the perspective of the Greek gods. FM sat down with the author to talk about simpler things: “the gray north,” brandy, and a love for words which has translated into an award-winning career...
...competition, sponsored by the journal Science in conjunction with the National Science Foundation, presented the award to Sung Hoon Kang, Boaz Pokroy, and Joanna Aizenberg from the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences...
...award-winning photograph depicts tiny plastic fibers, each with the diameter of one-five hundredths of a strand of hair, latching onto an equally miniscule plastic sphere...